It seems like Valve is no longer a gamer company, but rather a money company. Policies like allowing companies to ban, having publishers moderating and banning users on forums, shoving EA (early access) down our throats... Turning Valve into a store instead of a gaming company, known for making games like Half Life. We don't need another store, we have GMG (where I buy all my Steam games) and Amazon... Valve is turning into a store company. 

Brad_Hawthorne
Steam is a store, Valve is a game company. It's a bit naive to believe they made Steam to be a bunch of tree hugging feel good gamers. It's a storefront and has been for over a decade now.

What has Valve been doing? Sinking all their resources into Steam. I purposefully refrained from saying "Steam" in my post. 

Brad_Hawthorne

chrisdglong

Brad_Hawthorne
Steam is a store, Valve is a game company. It's a bit naive to believe they made Steam to be a bunch of tree hugging feel good gamers. It's a storefront and has been for over a decade now.

What has Valve been doing? Sinking all their resources into Steam. I purposefully refrained from saying "Steam" in my post. 

Heard of Source Engine 2?

Yeah, I played all their old games that run Source Engine 2... 

Every company is out to make money, some might put conditions on how they go about making it, but those tend to fall off once there's enough money at stake, Good Guy Greg co. will be re-branded as Scumbag Steve co. as soon as it gets big enough. I don't think there is much that can be done to prevent that outright, but consumers might be able to move the threshold for when it crosses over to the dark side, a little farther if we try.

donta1979
Go to valves webpage it even states they are really no longer a game company in the jobs/employment area of the site.

Yeah. They are becoming less attractive as a store now as well. Their customer service is terrible and it is like they just run an idle ship nowadays... Letting publishers do as they please. They used to seem very pro-customer, a breath of fresh air in the current gaming industry... It just seems like they have went downhill. 

Meh Gabe basically already admitted Valve makes more money selling TF hats and steam trinkets vs profits from making a game example he used was Portal2. If i can find the link to the interview ill add it later. Regardless i Agree with OP Valve has always had bad customer service but they no longer care about their core audience like they use too.

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf 
Their new employee handbook
"Valve is more than a game company. We started our existence as a pretty traditional game company. And we’re still one, but with a hugely expanded focus. Which is great, because we get to make better games as a result, and we’ve also been able to diversify. We’re an entertainment company. A software company. A platform company. But mostly, a company full of passionate people who love the products we create."

gutcheck
Just give me HL3 please.

I thought the big one already said no?

just the sale in csgo keys is enough to out sell the profit from gta 5 and skyrim XD

Clickalot

chrisdglong

gutcheck
Just give me HL3 please.

I thought the big one already said no?

I thought that it was confirmed it was in the making, but that's just me

http://www.ign.com/articl...ibility-of-half-life-3

Valve has no reason to make new games long as they have two cash cows called TF2 and CS:GO. They make a ton of money from micro-transactions. The same thing we hate EA and Activision for.
 
 

I for one am emphatically upset with what Valve now calls "Counter-Strike," these days.  I have been playing since the tail end of 1.3, and it is so sad to see how far down the crapper that this game title has gone.  Counter Strike 1.5 was an amazing rendition of the game, and I sadly feel that while Steam has come sooooo far and has made amazing strides in the gaming industry, it was the worst thing to ever happen to the title.  Do not get me wrong, I love 1.6, but it really felt that anything baring the title "Counter-Strike," was released just as a marketing standpoint.
 
They put the name "Counter-Strike" on it because it sold, Condition Zero was a turd, Source was garbage, and CS:GO...  Ugh, do not get me started on how atrocious this game is.  It is the only game that I have ever tried to pay the developers to take back.  It's as if CoD was implemented on the Source engine, and Valve does not care at all how bad the game is.  They had to implement microtransactions to keep them from falling into the red because more people went back to playing 1.6.  The game just lacks character and depth when it comes to unique playstyle and stability.
 
The fact that you can run a 128-tick server on a minimally provisioned VM and have it run stable should be enough evidence that there is little care put forth to this game.

I see nothing wrong with greenlight it just needs to be redone.